Organisation Wikidata ID Q12052714 Contribution Education: • Cairo University (Fuad I University at the time) – License in History (1940) • University of St Andrews – Master of Arts, Education (1950) • University of London – Educational Psychology (1957) • Ain Shams University, Women’s College – Teacher (1955-1964) • Cairo University – Professor (1965) Profession: • Egyptian Minister of Social Affairs – September 1962-September 1965 • Coordinator for Women’s Activities, Arab Socialist Union – 1963 • A leader of the Egyptian National Front -- 1980 (Professional) Role in St Andrews: Student – Master of Arts, Education (graduated in 1950) Involved in which fields of scholarship? (e.g. geology, philosophy and medicine) • Education • Politics/government • Psychology Most famous contribution(s) to scholarship /inventions/… 1 (i.e. in geology): • First female minister (of social affairs) in Egypt, second female in the Arab world to hold a ministerial position Biographical Text D.O.B: 1922 or 1923, El Sheikh Dawoud, Egypt D.O.D: 30 July, 2011 Family origins: • Grew up in an Egyptian nationalist household. • Though mother was illiterate, Hikmat encouraged to read throughout her youth – was even granted access to her father’s library. Private life/family life: • Husband resentful of her responsibility-laden role and the amount of time she spent outside of the domestic sphere as a result End Date 2011 Prim Media 397 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hikmat Abu Zayd Alternative Title An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific. حكمت أبو زيد (Arabic) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 249 Type The nature or genre of the resource Organisation Description An account of the resource Hikmat Abu Zayd (حكمت أبو زيد‎) was an Egyptian politician and academic born in the village of Shayk Daud sometime between 1922 and 1923. She obtained a license (Master’s-equivalent) in history from Cairo University in 1940 and a teaching certificate the following year. Abu Zayd then went on to study at the University of St Andrews, completing a Master of Arts in Education in 1950 and a PhD in Behavioral Psychology from the University of London in 1957. Abu Zayd was the first woman cabinet minister in Egypt and the second woman in the Arab world to ever hold a ministerial role. She was appointed as the Minister of Social Affairs by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1962 and served as minister until Nasser’s death in 1970. Abu Zayd was also named the Arab Socialist Union’s Coordinator for Women’s Activities in 1963 and throughout the 1980s, was the leader of the Egyptian National Front. Hikmat Abu Zayd died in Cairo, Egypt on 30 July 2011. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource licb1@st-andrews.ac.uk Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived BAMEStAndrews,internationaltour Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1922/3 Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Object The URL of a suitable source image in the best resolution available on the web site of the data provider from which small images could be generated for use in the portal. This will often be the same URL as given in europeana:isShownBy. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12052714